This article examines community-based conservation through Rewilding Africa CIC's innovative approach to protecting ecosystems while empowering local communities. Director James Arnott proposes a "megaconservancy model" that creates nature-positive businesses around national parks, addressing the root economic drivers of environmental destruction. Rather than fortress conservation that excludes communities, this model embraces "radical collaboration" among all stakeholders - communities, governments, NGOs, and private capital. With Africa's population doubling in twenty years and growing human-wildlife conflict, the piece argues that conservation's survival depends on solving the socioeconomic problem first, transforming communities from resource destroyers into resource protectors through sustainable livelihoods.